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Interesting idea - but it boils down to being a workaround for the lack of persistently connected and pervasively VPN-ed personal devices around us. Yes, we co
by ivoras 7y ago
Interesting idea - but it boils down to being a workaround for the lack of persistently connected and pervasively VPN-ed personal devices around us.
Yes, we could have a VPS per person being our fixed point on the Internet (and a fixed address...) but wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable? It might take an overlay network such as a DHT-like thing, it might be something IPFS or Torrents eventually lead to, but the end game is "everyone always on-line."
- neilalexander 7y agoThis kind of large-scale general purpose end-to-end reachability is what the Yggdrasil Network is designed to provide.
- paulddraper 7y agoNAT rules this world and all on it. Even moving to the cloud cannot seem to shake its networking presence. :(
- NetOpWibby 7y ago> wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable? Yes. However, I'd still like to do something in the meantime. There's no telling how long an overlay network would take to implement and release.
- neilalexander 7y agoSuch overlay networks exist today, albeit in early form, but functional none the less.
- NetOpWibby 7y agoCould you list the ones you know? I'm interested in learning more.
- neilalexander 7y agoYggdrasil Network, cjdns, libp2p I think for a start.
- oscargrouch 7y agoIm doing "this" using the chrome codebase and using DHT and torrents for content distribution. The chrome codebase mostly help me for the multi-process IPC communication and reusing the UI compositor for UI and Web. I wont say much more, because i want to keep some idea of novelty for when i launch this here on HN. For me is what a mix of what a Browser + App platform should be, with the idea of people owning their data, devs distributing without centralized control, and without forcing you to use some hardware or specific OS.